Contributors

Adam Koford ( Cover and Special Section illustrations) is “a father, an Eagle Scout, pretty tall, and a cartoonist.” His first drawing of a butterfly didn’t impress his mom: “She was pretty sure I had traced it, so she had me redo it.” He works for Disney Interactive Studios in Salt Lake City as a story artist, and has a daily webcomic called Laugh-Out-Loud Cats and a great recipe for grapefruit cake (ask him about it — we did).

Mike Gould (Lunchbox Laser Shows) is a longtime builder of devices, Macintosh expert, webmaster, commercial photographer, technical writer, camper, and hunter of morels. He bought his first laser in 1972 and worked with the Martian Entropy Band as a bass player and light show guy with his buddy Wayne Gillis. “Wayne and I are still building gizmos together 37 years later,” he says. Mike lives in Ann Arbor, Mich., with “one very patient wife,” and is currently working on Illuminatus 2.1: “Having mastered lunchboxes, we are now building lasers into antique projectors and stage lights as steampunk display artifacts.”

Jason Hornick (10-Rocket Mega-Launcher photography) is an editorial/commercial photographer based in Washington, D.C. After starting off as a staff photographer at newspapers in the D.C. metro area, he moved to full-time freelance status a year ago. Over the last six years, photography has allowed him to explore many places across the United States and the world. He’s photographed the best and the worst of life and had the fortune of meeting the most interesting people following their passion in life. When he’s not making photographs, Jason enjoys getting into the outdoors and mountain biking, hiking, and camping.

Serendipity played a role in the career of Patrick Keeling (Van Leeuwenhoek Microscope). In college, he confused molecular biology (the study of DNA) with microbiology (the study of microbial life) and signed up for a bunch of microbiology courses. “It was a happy accident, because it was all pretty interesting and I now study the molecular biology of microbes.” The Vancouver, B.C., father of two is also a woodworker and outdoorsman. What’s exciting him lately? Biological “barcoding” has him thinking “about whether (or not) our concept of ‘species’ works for microbial cells like it does for plants and animals, and just how we can think about diversity in the microbial world.”

James Provost’s (The Maker’s Bill of Rights and Marble Adding Machine illustrations) childhood was spent playing with computers, drawing, and taking things apart to learn how they worked. His first job was at Subway. His last job was drawing subways. Since then he’s been a freelance technical illustrator who spends his time playing with computers, drawing, and taking things apart to learn how they work.

Dan Rasmussen (Auto-Phenakistoscope) is an avid collector and fixer of vintage technology and an I T specialist for IBM who lives in Groton, Mass., with his wife, three kids, a dog, a very old cat, a hamster, and dozens of soon-to-be frogs. Why vintage technology? Under- standing how earlier engineers “solved problems under a different set of circumstances/ constraints is not only fascinating but can provide insights into how to solve new problems.” Plus, he says, “My favorite thing to do is to make things work again. There is nothing like hearing a radio come back to life after 50+ years of silence.” Next up? Teaching old radios how to play only old radio shows.

10 Make: Volume 20